every moment that passes has a message but we tend to distort the guide of the moment to the tune of our thinking that it becomes irrelevant..we misinterpret individuality then but we seldom realize..but the message remains the same..we need to go beyond..alas! we seldom go..

The best way to know the self is feeling oneself at the moments of reckoning. The feeling of being alone, just with your senses, may lead you to think more consciously. More and more of such moments may sensitize ‘you towards you’, towards others. We become regular with introspection and retrospection. We get ‘the’ gradual connect to the higher self we may name Spirituality or God or just a Humane Conscious. We tend to get a rhythm again in life. We need to learn the art of being lonely in crowd while being part of the crowd. A multitude of loneliness in mosaic of relations! One needs to feel it severally, with conscience, before making it a way of life. One needs to live several such lonely moments. One needs to live severallyalone.

Friday, 8 May 2015

GREENPEACE INDIA: “WE REFUSE TO BE INTIMIDATED BY SUCH DIRTY TRICKS.”

Greenpeace campaigners may be green
activists, but for Government of India, if we go by the developments, they are
anti-development.

According to reports, Greenpeace
India will be forced to close its operations within a month after the government
froze its accounts almost a month ago.

And if it happens so, it will be bad,
not only for its over 300 employees, but also for environmental activism (or
green activism).

And if it happens so, it will be a
first for Greenpeace, the global not-for-profit - the forced closure in a
country of its operation.

According to Greenpeace India chief
Samit Aich, the organization, with funds available, can sustain itself for a
maximum one month and a shutdown is imminent. The press release from the
organization appealed to fight back the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) decision
to block Greenpeace India funds, 68% of which, it claims, came from 77000
Indians.

Samit Aich appealed to his employees
- “I just made one of the hardest
speeches of my life, but my staff deserve to know the truth. We have one month
left to save Greenpeace India from complete shutdown, and to fight MHA’s
indefensible decision to block our domestic accounts. The question here is why are 340 people
facing the loss of their jobs? Is it because we talked about pesticide-free
tea, air pollution, and a cleaner, fairer future for all Indians?”

Greenpeace is sure going to challenge
it in a court, like it has done it in the past. And it is expected to emerge as
a winner, like it emerged in Priya Pillai case. She had moved to the court
after being offloaded from a London flight this January. Indian government
found her a threat to the country who was going abroad to testify against the
government. The Delhi High Court was stinging in its remarks while absolving
Priya Pillai this March. The court ordered the government to allow her to
travel abroad and remove her from the 'banned list'. The court also ordered the
government to expunge the remark related to her 'offloading' from her visa.

Justice Rajiv Shakdher’s was directly
hitting at the government – “Criticism,
by an individual, may not be palatable; even so, it cannot be muzzled. Many
civil right activists believe that they have the right, as citizens, to bring
to the notice of the state the incongruity in the developmental policies of the
state. The state may not accept the views of the civil right activists, but
that by itself, cannot be a good enough reason to do away with dissent.”

And it is bound to happen. India is
slated to overtake China as the world’s fastest growing economy and the signs
are already there. The Indian government of the day wants to increase the share
of manufacturing in its economy – from 16% to 22% by 2022. Now that is a lot
and bound to have intense activity in the sector with the ‘Make In India’
initiative.

The government and the activists,
especially, the environmental activists, will cross ways regularly. Greenpeace
India comes in this category.

And Greenpeace India is facing survival
crisis while writing this, as already mentioned. The government came with an
order that was to affect the whole organization, and not just some campaigners.
On April 9, government froze Greenpeace's bank accounts and suspended its FCRA
registration (Foreign Contribution Regulation Act) on ‘violating norms’ that
Greenpeace says are unfounded allegations.

On May 8, Greenpeace India submitted
its response to the MHA, rebutting point by point its accusations. They say
they have not violated norms and the MHA notice has many clerical errors and is
totally unfounded.

Greenpeace India expects its response
to the MHA will clear things. Samit Aich said on the response – “We are confident that this response
establishes our legitimacy beyond any doubt. We have addressed every allegation
made against us and responded in a transparent and honest way throughout. In
contrast, the MHA has used unfounded allegations and arbitrary penalties in a
blatant attempt to silence us. We remain proud of our campaigns for clean air,
water and affordable energy, and refuse to be intimidated by such dirty tricks.”

Let’s see what happens next. Like
Priya Pillai’s case, Indian courts are always accessible for an organization
like Greenpeace.

And if the MHA doesn’t act on it, we should hear from Greenpeace from the
courtroom for sure, for they ‘refuse to
be intimidated by dirty tricks’.

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